Homer S. Ferguson

Homer Samuel Ferguson (February 25, 1889 – December 17, 1982) was a United States Senator from Michigan. He was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Harrison City, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools and the University of Pittsburgh. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1913, was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Detroit, Michigan. He was judge of the circuit court for Wayne County, Michigan from 1929-1942 and also professor of law at Detroit College of Law (now part of Michigan State University) from 1929 to 1939.

Ferguson was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and was reelected in 1948, serving from January 3, 1943, to January 3 1955. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954. While in the Senate, he served as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Eighty-third Congress. He introduced bill that inserted "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. He served as United States Ambassador to the Philippines from 1955 to 1956 and was judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals at Washington, D.C. from 1956 to 1971. He served as senior judge on the United States Court of Military Appeals from 1971 to 1976, after which he moved back to Michigan and resided in Grosse Pointe, Michigan until his death. He is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, in Detroit.

Lloyd Bridges portrayed the character of Senator Ferguson in the 1988 movie, "".

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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferguson.html#R9M0IWMZB The Political Graveyard]

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* [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-85187 Homer Ferguson Papers 1939-1976] , collection maintained by University of Michigan